Javitch, Daniel
Proclaiming a Classic

The Canonization of 'Orlando Furioso'.

In exploring the literary debates involved in elevating the Furioso to the rank of a classic, Daniel Javitch maintains that this was the first work of modern poetry to provoke widespread critical controversy, and that the contestation played an inaugural role in the formation of the European poetic canon. 205 Seiten, gebunden (Princeton University Press 1991) textsauberes Exemplar mit leichten Gebrauchsspuren/clean text pages, minor traces of use